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Review – Jump – Breaking Point
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” Jonathan Gottschall ‘Breaking Point is JUMP’s fourteenth album. The Welsh band’s first release in over four years, it comprises a collection of material built around its title track. The familiar personal…
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LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT – Announce New Album to be Released on InsideOutMusic
Album due out in Spring 2021 The biggest music news of the year comes at the very end of 2020 as LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT announce their return with a new label and new album. The legendary supergroup comprised of Mike Portnoy (Transatlantic, Sons of Apollo), John Petrucci (Dream Theater), Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater), and Tony…
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RICHARD BARBIERI (JAPAN, RAIN TREE CROW, PORCUPINE TREE) RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM ‘UNDER A SPELL’
RELEASED ON KSCOPE – 26TH FEBRUARY The man whose illustrious career began in the late 70s with synth-pop visionaries Japan and more recently as a member of influential art-rock band Porcupine Tree follows up 2017’s Planets + Persona with new album Under A Spell. Richard Barbieri didn’t plan to make an album like Under A Spell, originally intending his…
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Review – Multi Story – CBF10 – by John Wenlock-Smith
Multi Story have a long and somewhat checkered history. Hailing from South Wales, they came to prominence in the mid 1980’s when their blend of symphonic progressive rock led to them being chosen by Birmingham’s finest Magnum as a support group for their On A Storyteller’s Night tour in 1985, memorably playing a set with…
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AIRBAG CO-FOUNDER BJ?RN RIIS DEBUTS POIGNANT NEW SINGLE INSPIRED BY PANDEMIC
AIRBAG CO-FOUNDER BJ?RN RIIS DEBUTS POIGNANT NEW SINGLE INSPIRED BY PANDEMIC The COVID-19 pandemic has brought loss and suffering to millions of ordinary people world-wide, the majority of whom have had to face the fact that their lives have been completely changed, and that for many, life will never be the same again. Stuck inside…
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Frontiers Announces Signing of Arc Of Life
NEW PROG ROCK GROUP FEATURING MEMBERS OF YES & SOUND OF CONTACT – DEBUT SINGLE & VIDEO ‘YOU MAKE IT REAL’ OUT NOW Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce the release of ARC OF LIFE’s self-titled debut album on February 12, 2021. Arc Of Life is a new progressive rock supergroup featuring three members…
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Progradar Top Ten Albums of the Year 2020.
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First Karisma Records Release of 2021 Announced – Meer – Playing House
The Norwegian 8-piece alternative progressive pop orchestra MEER is welcoming you with a massive sound, fabulous melodies, awesome harmonies and quite a few surprises. MEER started out as a duo in Hamar, Norway in 2008, and since then the duo has expanded considerably to become what it is today – an eight-piece eclectic collective whose…
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Review – Silent Skies – Satellites
The music of Silent Skies, the collaborative project between Tom S. Englund, vocalist of Swedish progressive group Evergrey, and virtuoso classical pianist Vikram Shankar, feels at once lushly cinematic, warmly intimate, darkly melancholic and incandescently beautiful. It’s making is a story of a deep musical kinship between two seemingly divergent talents. The pair first crossed…
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IAMTHEMORNING SHARE VIDEO FOR VENI VENI EMMANUEL?
NEW EP COUNTING THE GHOSTS? OUT NOW Iamthemorning have shared the new video for ‘Veni Veni Emmanuel taken from their new EP? Counting The Ghosts which is released today. Marjana from the band comments, ‘Veni Veni Emmanuel is a 12 century hymn sung in latin – the English translation exists and is somewhat more popular…